Re: [techtalk] vi technique for dos2unix

2000-05-03 Thread Sean McAfee
"Christian MacAuley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I wrote this script to get rid of the ghastly carriage returns in my DOS >files on my FreeBSD system. >=== >#!/usr/local/bin/tsh > >if test $# -eq 0 > then echo "You didn't enter a filename." >elif test -f "$1" > then cat $1 |

Re: [techtalk] OT - [job opp] open source, perl, html

2000-05-03 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 3-May-100 [techtalk] OT - [job opp] o.. by "Sidra M. S. Vitale"@ope > Ugh, an off-topic post! Icky-icky poo! Could some kind > soul let me know what the appropriate forum is for a job > opp? Or is *this* the appropriate forum? Surprisingly, it would be [EMAIL PROTECTE

[techtalk] OT - [job opp] open source, perl, html

2000-05-03 Thread Sidra M. S. Vitale
Ugh, an off-topic post! Icky-icky poo! Could some kind soul let me know what the appropriate forum is for a job opp? Or is *this* the appropriate forum? My company is looking to hire some code monkeys -- open-source, perl, html, SQL, and the occasional communication skill a plus. ;-) I'm ha

Re: [techtalk] signal 11 - help

2000-05-03 Thread Jeff Dike
> What does signal 11 mean? Signal 11 is SIGSEGV. It means that the process accessed (tried to, anyway) memory that it had no access to, either because the address didn't exist in its address space or because it didn't have the right permissions. The question you probably wanted answered more

[techtalk] signal 11 - help

2000-05-03 Thread Chris R.
1) I have been trying to reinstall Linux after it crashed on me. I have tired Mandrake version 6.1 & 7.0. Both have not worked correctly. I have even gone as far as low level formating the hard drive to make sure it was not the problem. After reformatting the hard drive I did install Win98 s

Re: [techtalk] floppy based routers

2000-05-03 Thread jenn
"Shelly L. Hokanson" wrote: > > can anyone recommend a good linux mini-distro (single floppy based) for a > router - (or present your opinions on a few)? i've been playing with coyote > linux, freesco, and floppyfw - i know coyote is based on the LRP, not sure > about the others. any suggestions

[techtalk] floppy based routers

2000-05-03 Thread Shelly L. Hokanson
can anyone recommend a good linux mini-distro (single floppy based) for a router - (or present your opinions on a few)? i've been playing with coyote linux, freesco, and floppyfw - i know coyote is based on the LRP, not sure about the others. any suggestions? basically i suppose what i'm looking

Re: [techtalk] vi technique for dos2unix

2000-05-03 Thread joey tsai
> The Quick'n'dirty way to do this in vi is as follows: > > 1. Open the dos text file in vi. > vi dosfile.txt > 2. Type the following: > :%s/^M//g > ...where you "compose" the ^M character by pressing Ctrl+v then Ctrl+m > 3. Save the file: > :w New.Unix.File.txt If you have

Re: [techtalk] vi technique for dos2unix

2000-05-03 Thread Christian MacAuley
I wrote this script to get rid of the ghastly carriage returns in my DOS files on my FreeBSD system. I use it like this: > nocr dosfile.txt === #!/usr/local/bin/tsh if test $# -eq 0 then echo "You didn't enter a filename." elif test -f "$1" then cat $1 | tr -d "\015" >

[techtalk] vi technique for dos2unix

2000-05-03 Thread Andrew Plumb
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Robert Kiesling wrote: > Usually when translating files from msdos to unix, you have to > translate at least the line termination characters. Msdos > uses a carraige return-line feed combination (hex 0xd0xa) to > terminate lines, while unices use only a line feed. Some util

[techtalk] graphics with c/c++

2000-05-03 Thread Deepa Karnad
Thanks everybody for the help. I did find all I wanted to know on the matter from the suggestions offered. Deepa

Re: [techtalk] converting netscape(win)mail to netscape(linux)mail

2000-05-03 Thread Michelle Konzack
>When I switched from Eudora to Pine, I had to convert all of the files >from DOS text to Unix text -- the specific problem was something with the >carriage returns. Since Eudora stores messages in mbox format, everything >else went fine. Before converting them, Pine saw the mailboxes as just >one